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The Savoy : nineties experiment
- Title
- The Savoy : nineties experiment / edited with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub.
- Publication
- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966.
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- Description
- xliv, 294 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- When the famous Yellow Book fired its brilliant young art director, Aubrey Beardsley, it provided the impetus for the creation of a Beardsley-centered quarterly to compete with it, The Savoy. Managed by the unlikely triumvirate of a dying artistic genius (Beardsley, the art editor), a dedicated literary jack-of-all-genres (Arthur Symons, the literary editor), and a pasty-faced pornographer (Leonard Smithers, the publisher), The Savoy's life was stormy and short. Yet during its eight-issue span it published a remarkable collection of writings and drawings including the Rabelaisian and rococo novel-fragment Under the Hill, Bernard Shaw's greatest essay, "On Going to Church," and other stories, poems, and essays by W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Max Beerbohm, Ernest Dowson, John ("Dorian") Gray, Ford Madox Ford, Havelock Ellis, Edmund Gosse, "Fiona MacLeod," Arthur Symons, Hubert Crackanthorpe, and others. The Savoy was also a showcase for the brightest artistic talents of the day--Rothenstein, Conder, Pennell, Beardsley, Beerbohm and their contemporaries. As with the literature, the best of The Savoy's art is reproduced in this striking, Savoy-sized volume, prefaced by a lucid, witty introduction by Stanley Weintraub which is, in effect, a "biography" of The Savoy and its fascinating leading figures.
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- Contents
- "The Beardsley": an introduction -- On going to church / G. Bernard Shaw -- A good prince / Max Beerbohm -- The three musicians / Aubrey Beardsley -- Dieppe: 1895 / Arthur Symons -- The binding of the hair / W.B. Yeats -- Under the hill: a romantic novel / Aubrey Beardsley -- Rosa Alchemica / W.B. Yeats -- The forge / John Gray -- A first sight of Verlaine / Edmund Gosse -- On the kind of fiction called morbid / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Anthony Garstin's courtship / Hubert Crackanthorpe -- O'Sullivan rua to Mary Lavell / W.B. Yeats -- The ballad of a barber / Aubrey Beardsley -- The dying of Francis Donne: a study / Ernest Dowson -- Three sonnets / Lionel Johnson -- The song of the women: a Wealden trio / Ford Madox Hueffer -- Mutability / Theodore Wratislaw -- O'Sullivan rua to the secret Rose / W.B. Yeats -- A romance of three fools / Ernest Rhys -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The epitaph in form of a ballade, which Villon made for himself and his companions when expecting to be hanged with them / Theodore Wratislaw -- Concerning Jude the Obscure / Havelock Ellis -- Morag of the glen / Fiona Macleod -- Catullus: Carmen Ci / Aubrey Beardsley -- The tables of the law / W.B. Yeats -- Epilogue / Ernest Dowson -- The childhood of Lucy Newcome / Arthur Symons -- A literary causerie: by way of epilogue / Arthur Symons.
- ISBN
- 0271731001
- 9780271731001
- LCCN
- 65026099
- OCLC
- ocm00369413
- 369413
- SCSB-260111
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library